Modelling targeted rabies vaccination strategies for a domestic dog population with heterogeneous roaming patterns.

ABSTRACT: Australia is currently canine rabies free. However, communities located on the northern coastline-such as the Northern Peninsula Area (NPA), Queensland-are at risk of an incursion due to their large populations of susceptible free-roaming dogs and proximity to rabies-infected Indonesian islands. A rabies-spread model was used to simulate potential outbreaks and evaluate various disease control strategies. A heterogeneous contact structure previously described in the population of interest-explorer dogs, roamer dogs and stay-at-home dogs-was incorporated into the model using six spatial kernels describing contacts between dog roaming categories. Twenty-seven vaccination strategies were investigated based on a complete block design of 50%, 70% and 90% coverage for each of the three roaming c

SUBMITTER: Hudson EG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6638970 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature